Four months into the corona crisis and one month into the nerve-racking spectacle of social and economic shutdown, it becomes clear that the big geopolitical loser of the pandemic is likely going to be Europe.
The reason for this is not primarily the poor performance of EU countries in using integrated EU tools to fight the virus and its economic impact - although that plays an important role as well.
The main reason is that Europe could end up being too broke to still be resili...
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Jan Techau is a senior fellow and director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).